Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@bardamu_ftw. Actually I contrasted Iran, a largely secular country with an Islamist state, and Turkey which (until Erdogan) was a strongly Islamic country with a secular state. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@rozhubley. My longest single train trip was London to Moscow in 1990. Have also done London to Rome, London to Warsaw, London to Prague, , London to Stockholm, Moscow to Crimea, Peking to Inner Mongolia. Plus several long US rides. Nothing beats it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @shaunmwing: @ClarkeMicah @spectator "What was the principal ideological difference between the government of John Major — the prototype… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Huge overnight assault by Frizelda. Please do check your accounts. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Perhaps. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have no idea — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

It is a long story @jprnyct, but basically, after decades of typewriters, I prefer a keyboard with a bit of give in it, and Macs don't issue those as standard. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@macalbatross — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I said this about the Tory Party in 2004. The problem, not the solution https://t.co/OZbOqIDKTD via @spectator — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tom__evans85, as soon as the problem stops, I'll stop mentioning it. Does it in some way cause you pain or affect your electricity bill? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

."macalbatross. Nobody *has* to listen. The no-platforming campaigners want to deny others the *opportunity* to listen. I have never held an audience captive in my life. They are always free to leave (and sometimes do) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Frizelda really piling it on again. I've never known her defend a quota point so hard. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Oh, it very much was @Rosie__mrsk . You often find it in grandfather clocks. Not sure when ‘IV’ became usual. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Actually @alexburcher3 that is the old English pronunciation which survives in the USA , as do several other English things — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Indeed .@Osprey0 and do you also rememeber that the useless Tory front bench could not be botehred to oppose Gordon Brown's gold sell-off , and Peter Tapsell, a backbencher, was left to do the job. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Frizelda fights on. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@norniqo More significantly, Have *I* met *you* ? I don't recall the encounter, but perhaps you were using another name at the time. What can it have been? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hwallop By the way, there's an Edward VIII pillar box in Dunfermline near the railway station, and Edward VIII Post *Offices* (now I think both turned to other uses) in Wallingford and Havant. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@hwallop Here’s a George IV lamppost https://t.co/damb2eO3ua — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 @hwallop . Further South up the same road there are several George IV's, which use the 'IIII' rather than 'IV' Latin numeral notation for '4' . But they are lamp-post bases. Prinny seems to have used his father's monogram and just added a 'I' . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 @hwallop. At the Kensington High St end of that very strange road called 'Palace Avenue' which runs to the east of the Royal Garden hotel. There are two, acting as bollards in a gateway. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes @GordonBrown, it is a terrible government, but was the one you supported and led so good, trampling idiotically across the Middle East with bullets and high explosive, piling up vast off-the-book debts through PFI, destroying pensions? Mote and beam, as the Good Book says. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@tbablue1. You mean, you agreed with him and you disagree with me. Why not just say so ( and perhaos explain why in an adult fashion) , instead of descending to this primary school playground abuse? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

How unimprovably witty and trenchant, and packed with subtle reasoning too. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

At 20 minutes 55 seconds into this press conference https://t.co/xwXaMW0WJM you may see me questioning Gerry Adams at a Washington press conference, and him suggesting in reply that I 'decommission' my questions. So long ago. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

An encounter with Gerry Adams at a press conference in Washington DC 14th March 1995. At 27:28 I can just be heard asking if the new Sinn Fein office (described by SF as an embassy rather than an office) will have a military attache. https://t.co/xwXaMW0WJM — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dolphinmaria Difficult - as I am, by definition, the only witness apart from Adams and memory lies. I'll just say that an article I had written for a major US newspaper had recently quite badly dented Sinn Fein fundraising, which was one of his main aims. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes @oldtrot. The state of non-TGV French railways is awful. German trains break down and crash, as they almost never did before.. But I gather the Netherlands have tried very hard to avoid this, and of course Switzerland is exempt (isn't it?) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

This tweet from @ichbinmandryka is interesting. Is the author of this untruth a) deficient in understanding or literacy and so well-advised to stay out of public debate or b) plain dishonest? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I'm not 'demanding' any such thing .@ichbinmandryka. I am in no position to 'demand' anything from the First Minister. I am urging it for the good of political discourse and the good of Ms Sturgeon. It is arrant bilge to call this a demand that she should be 'cancelled'. — PolitiTweet.org